403 P. Gardner, _Catalogue of Greek Coins, the Seleucid Kings of Syria_ (London, 1878), pp. 72, 78, 89, 112, pl. xxi. 6, xxiv. 3, xxviii. 8; G. F. Hill, _Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Lycaonia, Isauria, and Cilicia_ (London, 1900), pp. 180, 181, 183, 190, 221, 224, 225, pl. xxxiii. 2, 3, xxxiv. 10, xxxvii. 9; F. Imhoof-Blumer, “Coin-types of some Kilikian Cities,” _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xviii. (1898) p. 169, pl. xiii. 1, 2. The structure represented on the coins is sometimes called not the pyre but the monument of Sandan or Sardanapalus. Certainly the cone resting on the square base reminds us of the similar structure on the coins of Byblus as well as of the conical image of Aphrodite at Paphos (see above, pp. 14, 34); but the words of Dio Chrysostom make it probable that the design on the coins of Tarsus represents the pyre. At the same time, the burning of the god may well have been sculptured on a permanent monument of stone. The legend ΟΡΤΥΓΟΘΗΡΑ, literally “quail-hunt,” which appears on some coins of Tarsus (G. F. Hill, _op. cit._ pp. lxxxvi. _sq._), may refer to a custom of catching quails and burning them on the pyre. We have seen (above, pp. 111 _sq._) that quails were apparently burnt in sacrifice at Byblus. This explanation of the legend on the coins of Tarsus was suggested by Raoul-Rochette (_op. cit._ pp. 201-205). However, Mr. G. F. Hill writes to me that “the interpretation of Ὀρτυγοθήρα as anything but a personal name is rendered very unlikely by the analogy of all the other inscriptions on coins of the same class.” Doves were burnt on a pyre in honour of Adonis (below, p. 147). Similarly birds were burnt on a pyre in honour of Laphrian Artemis at Patrae (Pausanias, vii. 18. 12). 404 Herodian, iv. 2. 405 See Franz Cumont, “L’Aigle funéraire des Syriens et l’Apothéose des Empereurs,” _Revue de l’Histoire des Religions_, lxii, (1910) pp. 119-163. M96 Sandan of Tarsus an Asiatic god with the symbols of the lion and the double axe.